In re Mudie - [1957] NZLR 689

Medical Practitioners — Grave Impropriety in a Professional Respect — Medical Practitioner making False Statements in seeking Payment from Social Security Fund — Practitioner charged with Breaches of Social Security Act 1938 — Discharge, in Exercise of Magistrate's Discretion, on Payment of Costs — Such Discharge amounting to Acquittal — Practitioner later charged before Medical Council and found guilty of Grave Impropriety in a Professional Respect — Defence of Autrefois acquit not available to Practitioner — "Grave impropriety" — "In a professional respect" — Medical Practitioners Act 1950, s 44.